A Human Relations Approach to the Practice of Educational Leadership.

This book centers on the human-relation skills and knowledge that educational leaders need to lead public schools effectively. The purpose of the book is to help administrators and those studying to become administrators enhance their human-relations skills. The content and method of this book are centered on the first four of the six Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium standards developed specifically for school leaders. Each standard is operationalized through three dimensions: knowledge, dispositions, and performance. The book is organized into three sections: (1) "Psychological Foundations of Human Relations" addresses establishing the fundamental psychological principles necessary for developing and improving human-relations skills; (2) "Ethical and Philosophical Foundations of Human Relations" is concerned with establishing the fundamental theoretical principles upon which effective human-relations skills are based; and (3) "Human Communication and Human Relations" discusses the various forms of human communication. Each of the book's 15 chapters contains a summary section, a selected bibliography, and questions and statements for discussion. The book also contains self-assessment instruments and other types of exercises, exhibits, figures, tables, case studies, and a subject index. (WFA)